penal colony - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:24:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg penal colony - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Ommerschans beggar asylum (penal colony) in the Netherlands (1819) https://historylab.es/ommerschans-beggar-asylum-penal-colony-in-the-netherlands-1819/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ommerschans-beggar-asylum-penal-colony-in-the-netherlands-1819 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:47:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/ommerschans-beggar-asylum-penal-colony-in-the-netherlands-1819/ vagrancy, crime, punishment

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]]> Print of the Ommerschans beggar asylum. The main building had about thirty rooms where men and women slept (separately) with about 40 to 50 people. There were all kinds of outbuildings where the residents had to sew, weave, spin, or make robes or carpent. Nearby, men accompanied by soldiers performed labor in the fields.

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]]> The Colonies of Benevolence (a penal colony) in the Netherlands (19th century) https://historylab.es/the-colonies-of-benevolence-a-penal-colony-in-the-netherlands-19th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-colonies-of-benevolence-a-penal-colony-in-the-netherlands-19th-century Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:47:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/the-colonies-of-benevolence-a-penal-colony-in-the-netherlands-19th-century/ vagrancy, crime, punishment

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]]> Video of the Colonies of Benevolence. Central to the Colonies of Benevolence was the idea of raising beggars and vagrants into better people who contributed to society. In the agricultural colonies the people were put to work (they turned moorland into fertile farmland and did a variety of other work). The enterprise, however, became a failure. The colonies ran into financial problems.

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]]> Old postcard (about 1900) of the bedroom of the prison in the penal colony Cayenne, French Guyane https://historylab.es/old-postcard-about-1900-of-the-bedroom-of-the-prison-in-the-penal-colony-cayenne-french-guyane/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-postcard-about-1900-of-the-bedroom-of-the-prison-in-the-penal-colony-cayenne-french-guyane Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:47:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/old-postcard-about-1900-of-the-bedroom-of-the-prison-in-the-penal-colony-cayenne-french-guyane/ vagrancy, crime, punishment

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]]> Old postcard (about 1900) of the bedroom of the prison in the penal colony Cayenne, French Guyane.

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]]> Entrance of the French colonial overseas prison camp in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in French Guiana https://historylab.es/entrance-of-the-french-colonial-overseas-prison-camp-in-saint-laurent-du-maroni-in-french-guiana/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=entrance-of-the-french-colonial-overseas-prison-camp-in-saint-laurent-du-maroni-in-french-guiana Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:47:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/entrance-of-the-french-colonial-overseas-prison-camp-in-saint-laurent-du-maroni-in-french-guiana/ vagrancy, crime, punishment

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]]> Entrance of the French colonial overseas prison camp in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in French Guiana (1858-1946).

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